Description
Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.
References
- 3663 vdb-entry
- 3657 vdb-entry
- 20011207 Crashing X mailing-list
- http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2
- 20011208 Re: Crashing X mailing-list
- http://www.xfree86.org/security/
- xfree86-xterm-title-bo(7683) vdb-entry
- http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c
- xfree86-konqueror-bo(7673) vdb-entry
- 20010922 XFree86 DOS / Buffer overflow local and remote. mailing-list